Deputies: Woman showed up in court 'armed' with drugs

Unless you want to court trouble, then it's best to leave your drugs at home.

Don't do what this woman did: She showed up for a court appearance 'armed' to party.

Lynette Lovett was busted when she showed up for a court appearance in the Polk County Courthouse last Tuesday on an outstanding warrant for Aggravated Assault with a Weapon, according to a news release from the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

The 44-year-old Arcadia woman wore an arm brace and sling on her left arm during her court appearance. As she was being booked into the pokey, Lovett reportedly told the officers that there wasn’t anything in the brace and it would cause her pain if they removed it, according to the Sheriff's Office.

But deputies cast some doubt on her story after reportedly noticing some objects in the arm brace during the body scan and then summoned a nurse to safely check her brace.

They probably had to brace themselves for what they found next.

Inside a pocket that encased a supporting sponge in the sling, deputies found two containers holding 40 Xanax pills, 47 Oxycodone pills, and 1 ½ Hydromorphine pills -- and also an electronic cigarette device and a small glass container of banana-flavored liquid for the electronic cigarette, deputies said.

Now she's off to Sling-Sling with an additional charge: Introduction of Contraband into a Detention Facility.